strange scam from gumtree...

joshclem

Hi there.

I know this is a scam, as i told the person i want £190 for my phone and they offered my £240. Im just trying to figure out how they planned to scam me?

This is the email "she" sent

Thanks for your reply

i am willing to proceed with the transaction now and pay you 240 so if
you accept my offer.kindly Login to your PayPal account and select
the request money button located at the top of your PayPal account
homepage and send the money request directly to my PayPal account id
which is (her email) so that i can submit payment to you via
PayPal right now as PayPal is safe, fast and easy to send and receive
money online.
If you don't have a paypal account just logon to https://www.paypal.com and setup
your paypal account, after setting up your paypal account you locate the
request money button located at the top of your paypal account home page,
use it to request money directly from my paypal account which is
(her email) once I receive your money request from paypal, I will
submit payment to you immediately via
paypal asap.

Thanks

System

joshclem wrote: »

Hi there.

I know this is a scam, as i told the person i want £190 for my phone and they offered my £240. Im just trying to figure out how they planned to scam me?

This is the email "she" sent

Thanks for your reply

i am willing to proceed with the transaction now and pay you 240 so if
you accept my offer.kindly Login to your PayPal account and select
the request money button located at the top of your PayPal account
homepage and send the money request directly to my PayPal account id
which is (her email) so that i can submit payment to you via
PayPal right now as PayPal is safe, fast and easy to send and receive
money online.
If you don't have a paypal account just logon to https://www.paypal.com and setup
your paypal account, after setting up your paypal account you locate the
request money button located at the top of your paypal account home page,
use it to request money directly from my paypal account which is
(her email) once I receive your money request from paypal, I will
submit payment to you immediately via
paypal asap.

Thanks

I would say fairly shortly you will get an email

PAYMENT RECEIVED POST NOW

It'll be a fake PayPal notification email, and it will go on about some bull about having to post FedEx Priority

joshclem

ahhhh yes ofcourse thanks

System

joshclem wrote: »

ahhhh yes ofcourse thanks

Yes they have different ways of repacking the same old crap. Asking for an invoice is a new one.

marywooyeah

good that you've posted this before doing so though - I bet loads of people fall for it!